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Maurice Halbwachs

1877 - 1945

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Maurice Halbwachs (French: [mɔʁis albvaks]; 11 March 1877 – 16 March 1945) was a French philosopher and sociologist known for developing the concept of collective memory. Halbwachs also contributed to the sociology of knowledge with his La Topographie Legendaire des Évangiles en Terre Sainte, a study of the spatial infrastructure of the New Testament (1951). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice Halbwachs is the 366th most popular philosopher (down from 349th in 2019), the 1,011th most popular biography from France (down from 962nd in 2019) and the 47th most popular French Philosopher.

Maurice Halbwachs is most famous for his theory of collective memory. He argued that social groups have a collective memory that is passed down from generation to generation.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Maurice Halbwachs ranks 366 out of 1,267. Before him are John Philoponus, George Santayana, Fukuzawa Yukichi, Julius Caesar Scaliger, Stilpo, and Ramanuja. After him are Francisco de Vitoria, Étienne Cabet, Wilhelm Windelband, Alexandre Koyré, Pierre d'Ailly, and Chandrakirti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Maurice Halbwachs ranks 21. Before him are Gabriele Münter, Louis Renault, G. H. Hardy, Kees van Dongen, Kārlis Ulmanis, and Jesse Livermore. After him are Alfred Cortot, Ernst von Dohnányi, Mykola Leontovych, Aga Khan III, Henry Norris Russell, and Enrico De Nicola. Among people deceased in 1945, Maurice Halbwachs ranks 71. Before him are Arthur Nebe, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Otto Neurath, René Lalique, Juana Bormann, and Konrad Henlein. After him are Margot Frank, Boris Shaposhnikov, Fumimaro Konoe, Kurt Knispel, Kiril, Prince of Preslav, and Edith Frank.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Halbwachs ranks 1,011 out of 6,770. Before him are Joan II, Countess of Burgundy (1292), Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1725), Jacques Perrin (1941), Caterina Valente (1931), Lili Boulanger (1893), and Gabriel Lamé (1795). After him are Chilperic I (539), Philippe de Vitry (1291), Roger Etchegaray (1922), Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907), Robert Doisneau (1912), and Joseph Liouville (1809).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Maurice Halbwachs ranks 47. Before him are Georges Sorel (1847), Henri Lefebvre (1901), Félix Guattari (1930), Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857), Louis Couturat (1868), and René Girard (1923). After him are Étienne Cabet (1788), Pierre d'Ailly (1350), Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1782), Edgar Morin (1921), Antoine Arnauld (1612), and Richard Avenarius (1843).

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